Coin Star Find
MJPHELAN
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Although none of my three children like to collect coins (presumed genetic defect), my 15 year old has learned to look in the Coin Star machines. On Sunday he found over 10 dollars in change which included 32 wheats (oldest was 1917) including 5 steel pennies, a 1901 indian cent, and a silver war nickel. We wondered if the steel cents triggered the machine to dump the change. I may yet get a coin collector!
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Coin stars often kick out coins for no apparent reason. I sometimes use them to get gift cards because there is no fee. The crazy things seem to always kick out a few coins and sometimes a LOT of coins. I don't get it because it almost always will take them when I re-feed them back into the beast. There are of course certain coins that always get rejected (mostly foreign and damaged). The fact that you got over $10 in change is not surprising if the person who previously used it had fed a huge amount of coin into it. I don't believe the steel cents would trigger it to drain remaining coins but I suppose it is possible.
I don't know why wheaties get rejected, but they do. Electronic signature should be fine?
Makes me wonder how many Wheaties were not rejected and are still in the machine...
I have had coin star finds with coins that should have gone through normally, but for some reason didn't. But $10! Wow!
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$10 bucks is an equivalent of finding about 3 Washington Silver Quarters! Cool.
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